-ome

British

combining form

denoting a mass or part of a specified kind

rhizome

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of -ome

variant of _-oma

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In the past year, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have run pieces poking fun at the proliferation of scientific words ending in -ome, which now number in the thousands.

From Nature • Feb. 27, 2013

I think -ome is a very important suffix.

From Nature • Feb. 27, 2013

The -ome suffix, Hartung says, suited the scale of his goal: a description of the entire set of cellular processes responsible for toxicity.

From Nature • Feb. 27, 2013

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023